It’ll be I interesting going forward. I’ve been on Wegovy since October, and have lost about 50lbs or ~15% of my body weight. I wonder if my insurance will continue to pay for if it can help me get all the way down to a healthy weight…
As I understand it, these drugs are more or less designed to be taken forever or you’re likely to gain the weight back. What good is all this doing if I have to cease the medication if I can get to a “healthy weight”?
So my insurance currently covers a lifetime benefit of like $20k or something for these meds. I used to be on Saxenda, but I couldn't get it filled and the weight came right back.
However, I actually started gaining weight before I stopped taking it - because some big stressors re triggered my poor eating habits. Had that not occurred, and I was able to continue to lose weight and not sought out my poor habits before, I think it would have been significantly easier to keep the weight off.
That being said, I think insurance companies are trying to delay as much as they can for these drugs to go generic. They currently just cost way too fucking much for something that can benefit most Americans because of shit eating habits.
On another note: my sleep apnea didn't go away as I lost weight. I was very disappointed.
The Israel Defense Forces have repeatedly struck Al-Mawasi — an inhospitable patch of land north of Rafah that has expanded into a crowded tent city — despite having designated it a safe humanitarian zone.
An investigation by NBC News into seven deadly airstrikes found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones, including Al-Mawasi.
For Al-Sarafendi, her accounting of the damage and injuries stretched from the chaos of Wednesday night back to the attacks that had pushed her family into Al-Mawasi in the first place, as the grinding regularity of one violent assault bled into the other.
On June 8, Al-Sarafendi, who is originally from Rafah, was sheltering in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, when Israeli forces conducted an operation to rescue four hostages, killing at least 270 people, according to Palestinian health authorities.
The village has grown into a densely populated tent city since the start of the war, becoming more crowded as some of the more than 1 million people who were sheltering in nearby Rafah fled the ground invasion that began there last month.
Video filmed by rescuers and obtained by NBC News showed several people, apparently dead, blood pouring from their mouths, being pulled from a warehouse as it was engulfed in flames.
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Is Mumin a psuedonym or his real birth name? Wikipedia says "mumin" means "believer" whereas "muslim" means submitter. I'm wondering if this is a caste-based naming system.
Trump is probably so jealous. The two kids he wants to be best friends with are hanging out together without him. They are going to become best friends and won't want to hang out with him anymore. So sad.
Who does North Korea follow when Russia's forces are depleted if China starts doing special military operations towards separatist breakaway regions on the Russian side of the border
well putins russia is the beggar now and NK and china the providers so its not quite the same as days passed. I still blame it on putin getting trumps loser cooties that won't go away as long as trumps loser sould keeps giving it loser powers.
Kim was at Pyongyang International Airport to greet Putin upon his arrival in the early hours of Wednesday, shaking his hand and embracing him, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
The leaders’ itinerary also includes individual speeches, a tea party and a “ceremonial concert” to be held at a sports complex, Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Monday, according to Russian state media.
The strategic agreement could “lay the groundwork for arms trade and also facilitate their anti-U.S. and anti-West coalition,” said Lami Kim, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Russia was trying “in desperation, to develop and to strengthen relations with countries that can provide it with what it needs to continue the war of aggression that it started against Ukraine.”
Russia ended the monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea with a veto in the Security Council earlier this year that drew accusations that Moscow was avoiding scrutiny and joining China in shielding Kim from consequences for his weapons tests.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest point in years, as Kim accelerates weapons testing and the U.S., South Korea and Japan intensify joint military drills that the North views as a rehearsal for invasion.
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Who, North Korea? They might provide more artillery munitions. That's not good for Ukraine. Like, there's a direct cost in lives in munitions provided.
I'd bet that they still haven't emptied their arsenals.
Russia? Russia can do a bunch of things that North Korea wants. North Korea wants access to food, energy, weapons technology, you name it.
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